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Bordkanone 75
Post subject: Re: FD AU 4Posted: December 15th, 2018, 6:33 am
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Post subject: Re: FD AU 4Posted: December 19th, 2018, 1:32 pm
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So after posting my VC10 derivative Belfast alternative, I started thinking again about the way the British ministerial mindset works (I've had a few professional run-ins with the civil service in the past) and realised that the Belfast would probably have been ordered come hell or high water, for purely political reasons. I also started thinking about the alternate freighter programme for a freighter to bypass the Middle East, but more on that later. So, if the Ministries of Aviation and Supply would have ordered the Belfast regardless of what the War Office said, why not improve the Belfast?

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Simple idea here, the Army specified the need to airlift a 57-ton Conqueror ARV and Shorts modified the SC5 to carry such a load. The fuselage was strengthened and stretched to accommodate the same weight in other cargo, the wing redesigned to increase span, area and fuel stowage, and the engines replaced with (fictitious) Bristol Tartarus turboprops, which was based on the Olympus and eventually gave rise to the Marine Olympus a few years later.

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odysseus1980
Post subject: Re: FD AU 4Posted: December 19th, 2018, 3:20 pm
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Nice try!

Most powerful Tyne planned would have 8,440 hp, what about hp of that Taurus turboprop?


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Post subject: Re: FD AU 4Posted: December 20th, 2018, 9:17 am
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An interesting concept for sure.
I'd be interested to hear more about the fictional Tartarus.
The first Marine Olympus TM1 was 23,200shp, so I'm thinking something around 15,000shp as a ballpark possibility? That would make this design something analogous to the Antonov An-22.

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Post subject: Re: FD AU 4Posted: December 20th, 2018, 1:46 pm
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I was thinking 10-12,000shp, being based on early Olympus models. It'd put the design somewhere between the C-133 and An-22 in terms of performance and payload.

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Post subject: Re: FD AU 4Posted: December 20th, 2018, 3:33 pm
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This would be a useful aircraft. However, I think that Rolls Royce would recycle a Bristol name for naming the turboprop Olympus.


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llamaman2
Post subject: Re: FD AU 4Posted: December 20th, 2018, 8:31 pm
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Well in this particular scenario, one of the differences to the timeline is that the UK government prevented the Rolls Royce buyout of Bristol Siddeley on competition grounds, meaning that there were still two major aero engine manufacturers.

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Post subject: Re: FD AU 4Posted: December 21st, 2018, 11:39 pm
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The Reggiane Re.2006 was originally supposed to have a four bladed propeller, but VDM, the chosen propeller maker, couldn't make a four bladed propeller so the team making the Re.2006 was forced to use a three bladed propeller. These drawings explore what if the Re.2006 had a four bladed propeller, and what if the Re.2006 went into service.


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Toxic Loki
Post subject: Re: FD AU 4Posted: December 22nd, 2018, 6:34 pm
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Post subject: Re: FD AU 4Posted: December 23rd, 2018, 12:07 pm
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Hi Toxic Loki!

That Helo... neat, really neat. Consider it stolen for the Thiariaverse.

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